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Dresden Venus (c. 1510–11), traditionally attributed to Giorgione but for which Titian completed at least the landscape.. The Venus of Urbino (also known as Reclining Venus) [1] is an oil painting by Italian painter Titian, depicting a nude young woman, traditionally identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace.
Titian. London: The National Gallery Company/Yale. ISBN 1-857099036. (the painting was listed as #10 in this exhibition, but did not in fact appear) Freedberg, Sydney J. Painting in Italy, 1500–1600, 3rd edn. 1993, Yale, ISBN 0300055870; Puttfarken, Thomas (2005). Titian & Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist ...
Titian's Venus of Urbino, 1538. Uffizi, Florence, Titian's famous earlier reclining nude. After the original in Naples, where Cupid is to her right, he is replaced by an elderly maid, holding out a cloth or dish to catch the gold coins spilling down from an explosion of colour in the sky which represents Zeus. [16]
The Worship of Venus is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Titian completed between 1518 and 1519, housed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. [1] It describes a Roman rite of worship conducted in honour of the goddess Venus each 1 April. On this occasion, women would make offerings to representations of the goddess so as to ...
Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and it is considered to be one of the collection's highlights. [ 1 ] The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the Venus de' Medici in Florence or the Capitoline Venus in Rome, which Titian may have seen when he wrote that ...
Venus and Musician refers to a series of paintings by the Venetian Renaissance painter Titian and his workshop. Titian's workshop produced many versions of Venus and Musician , which may be known by various other titles specifying the elements, such as Venus with an Organist , Venus with a Lute-player , and so on. [ 1 ]
The painting was made by Titian for the Sala dei Baccanali in the Camerini d'alabastro for Alfonso I d'Este, after The Worship of Venus (1518–1519) and Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–1523) and Titian's intervention on The Feast of the Gods by Bellini in 1524–1525 where he retouched the landscape to match the style of the other paintings.
Titian paintings on display in the Museo del Prado (from left to right: Danaë and the Shower of Gold, The Worship of Venus, Bacchanal of the Andrians, and Venus and Adonis) Although the best surviving examples of the Farnese or two-dog type appear to be at least as late as the Prado type, it may be that this was the original composition.